Tunisian Police to Migrants: 'We Don't Need You Here'
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Libyan border guards have rescued dozens of migrants who have been left in the desert by Tunisian authorities without water and food, and their numbers are "rising," a Libyan officer said Sunday.
"I asked: where are you taking us? They say they want to throw us in Libya. But what did we do to be sent to Libya? They said: We don't need you here in Tunisia," said Abu, a migrant from Ivory Coast.
Following racial unrest in early July in Sfax, Tunisia's second-largest city, hundreds of migrants from sub-Saharan African countries were forcibly taken to desert and hostile areas bordering Tunisia, Libya and Algeria.